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Mickey Mouse is a presence that embodies the philosophy of \u201cInnovation,\u201d \u201cCreativity,\u201d \u201cImagination,\u201d and \u201cStorytelling\u201d which Walt Disney has continued to value and celebrate. While Mickey Mouse has inspired people all over the world as a global ambassador of The Walt Disney Company, his name first widely came to be known in the 1928 animated talkie film Steamboat Willie, which was voiced by Walt Disney himself.

Keiichi Tanaami, whose work is featured in this exhibition, mentions as follows regarding his childhood memory of seeing this film in the years after the war. \u201cWhen I was a child, I watched Walt Disney\u2019s animation film Steamboat Willie at a small movie theater near Meguro station. Having only seen still cartoon images in comic books until then, I was amazed by the sight of Mickey Mouse jauntily moving across the screen. I soon found myself making sketches of Mickey in my notebook under the dim light of the emergency exit sign. After returning home, I colored in these sketches of Mickey, and when I put them up all around my room I was overcome by a great sense of satisfaction that simply made me want to get up and dance about.\u201d
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\"This special exhibition imagines the future of Mickey Mouse, who has become the most famous character in the world,\" Shinji Nanzuka noted about the show. \"Why does Mickey Mouse continue to be loved by people all across the globe? His sheer presence that is not limited to his richly animate features, cute gestures, and his role as a friend who is at times mischievous but is kinder and more compassionate than anyone lese, bears a deep connection to the magic cast by his creator, Walt Disney. \u201cI only hope that we never lose sight of one thing \u2013that it was all started by a mouse, (*)\u201d are the famous words of Walt Disney. For the great creator who continued to believe in the importance and power of imagination and created Disneyland as \"the land of dreams,\u201d Mickey Mouse is the one and only symbol that embodies his thoughts and his dreams that live on forever.\" 

In addition, the Fantasia (1940), which also features Mickey Mouse as the main character, has fascinated people since its release as a true masterpiece in cinema, recognized as one of the most celebrated feature films of the twentieth century for its unprecedented fusion of magnificent classical music, brilliant colors, and mixture of dynamic and delicately refined motions.

Furthermore, in correspondence to this exhibition, large three-dimensional works of Mickey Mouse produced by Javier Calleja and Hajime Sorayama will be specially presented as public art on the premises of Shibuya Parco. The exhibition opens on November 19th to the public, which we celebrate the birthday of Mickey Mouse. We look forward to welcoming visitors to this creative and exciting venture.

The exhibition features a diverse line-up of Mickey Mouse works that have been envisioned by each of the participating artists: Javier Calleja based in Malaga, Spain, South Korean artist Yoon Hyup based in New York, London-based British artist James Jarvis, Japanese artist Tetsuya Nakamura based in Nagano, Japan, Los Angeles-based British artist Oliver Payne, Los Angeles-based American artist Darren Romanelli, New York-based Japanese artist Koichi Sato, and artists Hajime Sorayama, Keiichi Tanaami, Haroshi and Yoshirotten from Tokyo.

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Our friends at Nanzuka have curated the exhibition Mickey Mouse Now and Future<\/em>, under a license contract with The Walt Disney Company (Japan) Ltd. Based on a \u201cfan gathering\u201d of international artists who love and cherish Mickey Mouse, the exhibition is an art collaboration project that engages in depicting the present and future of the world\u2019s most famous mouse.<\/p>","event":{"BeforeDisplay":"","AfterDisplay":"","AfterDisplayTitle":"","BeforeDisplayContent":"","AfterDisplayContent":"","K2BeforeDisplay":"","K2AfterDisplay":"","K2AfterDisplayTitle":"","K2BeforeDisplayContent":"","K2AfterDisplayContent":""},"jcfields":[],"videoClass":false,"twitter_introtext":""},{"id":"70188","title":"Amoako Boafo "Soul Of Black Folks" @ MoAD, San Francisco","alias":"amoako-boafo-soul-of-black-folks-moad-san-francisco","catid":"23","published":"1","introtext":"Amoako Boafo: Soul of Black Folks, is the premier museum solo exhibition for Ghanaian artist Amoako Boafo. The show is a presentation of over 20 works created between 2018-2021. Soul of Black Fo<\/span><\/span>","fulltext":"

Amoako Boafo creates paintings that actively center Black subjectivity, Black joy, and the Black gaze. Anchored by extremely calculated brushwork combined with skillfully executed finger-painted strokes, his mark-making generates a rich visual dichotomy that produces an evocative tension between the foreground and background. Moreover, this spatial tension yields both inward and outward-looking explorations of Boafo\u2019s subjects and the act of painting Black figures themselves.<\/p>\r\n

The seminal text by sociologist and Pan-Africanist W.E.B. Du Bois inspires the exhibition title \u2013 The Souls Black of Folk, an ethnographic study of Black life behind the veil of race. This research resulted in the coining of the phrase double-consciousness, which evoked this sense of Black people constantly having to look at themselves through the eyes of others. Du Bois\u2019s text serves as an invitation to think deeply about Boafo\u2019s artistic practice and how it challenges an \u201cothered\u201d gaze concerning the Black figure.<\/p>\r\n

Moreover, this exhibition asks how taking agency in the cultivation of one\u2019s narrative, aesthetic, and cultural expression results in the activation of a heightened Black consciousness that is antithetical to the western canonical discourse?<\/p>\r\n